David Hume Quotes

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life.

We cannot learn men from books.

I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The best university is the university of life.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.